Double Standard

Mike, what are you saying the standards are? Ones set by the FCC, or just something "offensive". Example: I'm extremely offended by everything the Liberals say. Would every show expressing those ideas be terminated. I'd trying to get to your idea here, help me out,,, thanks, this is a subject we all need to discuss.

Dave,

See below as to Ronald Reagan's approach to government under the heading "Subsidiarity". The standards are what we the people decide through our elected representatives in government. Government both protects individual rights and carries out the popular will, the first being a function of the courts, and the second, in this context, being a function of the FCC. There is always the danger of judicial nullification and frustration of the will of the people. We do not live in a perfect world. Reagan used to say, "Power to the people" meaning something quite different from what the bad guys meant.

As Buchanan has said, the media firings are a result of living under a system of capitalism. When some people sell their labor and skills to other people, the employer has the right to decide how long the other guy gets to stay on the job unless they have a contract saying that the employee can say whatever he wants and still keep his job. The planned economy of socialism has proven to be sheer madness.

None of these cases involve "wrongful termination" as far as I can determine. The only remedy I can see for people getting fired is to abolish the system of wage labor or capitalism. If no one sells his or her own labor and skills to another, or buys the labor and skills of another for private gain, then everyone would be essentially individual entrepreneurs, unless they agree to go into business with other entrepreneurs on an equal basis. This would not be a limitation on true personal freedom in the sense of the ability to do what one aught, as differentiated from the right to do whatever one pleases which is an extreme form of libertarianism. Of course there would have to be some allowance made for people to learn a trade or develop a skill or get a start in life by working for someone who is already in the business. If this sounds utopian, it is because we live in a capitalistic world where people do, regretably, get fired all the time. Government can of course provide tax credits and other incentives for people to go into business for themselves. Human nature being what it is, imperfect, there will always be a need for some government regulation.